Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

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Generative AI and Copyright, When AI Hits the Music Business, The Social Media that Comes After Twitter Apr 17, 2023

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Clown Car History Lessons, Both Sides of the Twitter-Substack Fight, Parenthood Tech Strategies Apr 10, 2023

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Substack Notes, Twitter Blocks Substack, Substack Versus Writers — Stratechery Update

Substack CEO pushes back at Elon Musk, says Twitter situation is ‘very frustrating’ — The Verge

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(Preview) A Twitter Temperature Check, Reactions to that AI Open Letter, The Technical Logistics of a TikTok Ban Mar 30, 2023

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Replit and Google, The Google Perspective, Twitter’s Bad Idea — Stratechery Update

Tweet by Elon Musk — @elonmusk

Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model? — Stratechery

ChatGPT Gets a Computer — Stratechery

The Accidental Consumer Tech Company; ChatGPT, Meta, and Product-Market Fit; Aggregation and APIs — Stratechery Update

Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter — Future of Life Institute

Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down — Time

Harry Potter by Balenciaga — YouTube

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Evaluating AI Risk and Entering an Era of Incredible Unknowns Mar 27, 2023

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Apple and AI, Lobotomized Lovers, XR Companions — Stratechery Update

AI and the Big Five — Stratechery

Welcome to Stratechery — Stratechery

Who Funds the Future? — The New Yorker

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Appropriate Fear of Microsoft, A Workplace Efficiency Counterpoint, Artifact and Substack in the Modern Era Mar 20, 2023

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The Future of Work With AI — Microsoft YouTube Channel

AI and the Big Five — Stratechery

More on Google and AI; OpenAI, Integration, and Microsoft — Stratechery Update

An Interview with Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger About Artifact — Stratechery Interviews

Sovereign Writers and Substack — Stratechery

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(Preview) A Big Week for AI, Closed Source vs. Open Source Development, Meta in the "Year of Efficiency" Mar 16, 2023

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GPT-4, Google Adds AI to Productivity Apps, Local Language Models — Stratechery Update

Here are some incredible things people are already doing with GPT-4 — @LinusEkenstam

Lensa and Stable Diffusion, Stable Diffusion and Apple Silicon, Open Questions — Stratechery Update

Friction — Stratechery

Meta’s powerful AI language model has leaked online — what happens now? — The Verge

Update on Meta’s Year of Efficiency — Meta

Oscars Draw 18.7 Million Viewers — New York Times

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The SVB Collapse, How the Government Responded, and the Era in Tech that Ended This Weekend Mar 13, 2023

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The End of Silicon Valley (Bank) — Stratechery

Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC — U.S. Dept. of Treasury

The Demise of Silicon Valley Bank — Net Interest

Startup Bank Had a Startup Bank Run — Bloomberg

The Uber Dilemma — Stratechery

The End of the Beginning — Stratechery

The End of the Beginning Follow-Up, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital, Venture versus Productive Capital — Stratechery Update

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(Preview) Xbox History and VR’s Future, The TikTok Ban, Much to Consider Before a Pivot from Big Tech Mar 09, 2023

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Spotify Stream On 2023 — YouTube

I don’t think Meta knows it’s a game company — The Verge

Status as a Service (StaaS) — Eugene Wei

Meta and the Quest Pro; Meta and VR as Console; Microsoft, Activision, and the EU — Stratechery Update

FCC relaxes rule limiting foreign ownership of media stations — Washington Post

White House backs Senate bill to boost US ability to ban TikTok — Reuters

Exclusive: Senator's TikTok whistleblower alleges data abuses — Axios

MLS commissioner Don Garber discusses expansion, Apple TV deal and more in exclusive interview — The Athletic

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What the NBA Can Learn from Formula 1, Why ESPN May Need to Pivot Too, The EPL Outlier and Apple's MLS Experiment Mar 06, 2023

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What the NBA Can Learn from Formula 1 — Stratechery

ESPN wants to be the hub of all live sports streaming — even if it helps its competition — CNBC

The Intel Opportunity — Stratechery

r/formuladank — Reddit

MLS on Apple TV, The MLS Perspective, The Apple Perspective — Stratechery Update

The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports — Amazon

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The Google Culture Question, A Law of Large Companies, Twitter's Algorithm Plans, Apple's Attempt at Glucose Monitoring Feb 27, 2023

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The Google CEO Question, Steve Ballmer and Peacetime CEOs, About That Bard Mistake — Stratechery Update

Evaluating Sundar Pichai, EC Announces New Google Investigation, Amazon Blocks FLoC — Stratechery Update

The maze is in the mouse — Medium

Google Executives See Cracks in Their Company’s Success — New York Times

App founder quits Google, says company doesn’t serve users anymore — Ars Technica

Welcome to Stratechery — Stratechery

Elon Musk suggests Twitter could open source its algorithm ‘next week’ — TechCrunch

Back to the Future of Twitter — Stratechery

Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking for Its Watch — Bloomberg

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